You ask me why,
I cry to myself in the night,
and when you quietly rest by my side,
I choose to tip toe out of sight.

You want to know why,
thoughts engulf my mind,
why no smiles crawl,
up the corners of my eye.

You see the blankness sometimes,
writ large on my face,
and ask me if,
despair is what I wish to embrace.

You ask me why tears come gushing out,
when my eyes are sown shut,
and why my grieving heart doesn’t want to,
hear the comforting words you hold forth.

I know not how to tell you,
about the growing chasm between us,
about how love just faded away with life,
leaving no traces behind of it.

I know that it was not the same,
when it started for us,
and yet I know not how I can bring the moments back,
now that it has gone so far from us.

I will tell you of those days,
when we pined to be near,
and in arms of each other,
wanted to be held.

The distance grew when we came close,
and you no longer felt the tremor,
and as time passed,
so did the feelings,
that had once brought us together